From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 12 12:59:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035F7106566C for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:59:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C88338FC1A for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:59:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 774FE46B2E; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8174F8A06C; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:59:21 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:38:06 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20090610174211.GA78796@crodrigues.org> <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B523819339EBA5F118@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> <20090612040939.GA293@crodrigues.org> In-Reply-To: <20090612040939.GA293@crodrigues.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906120838.06973.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:59:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Craig Rodrigues , David Christensen Subject: Re: Broadcom NIC not recognized by FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:59:23 -0000 On Friday 12 June 2009 12:09:39 am Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:42:50AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > The bge driver recognizes the controller but fails to get the > > adapter's BAR memory mapped by the OS. Since it's only requesting > > 64KB it sounds like an OS issue. If you remove any other PCI > > devices in the system does the bge driver load? > > I cannot remove any devices from the system. > The problem is occurring on an Acer Aspire 5920 laptop > with no external devices plugged into it. You can try disabling ACPI. On some machines ACPI initialization inexpicably clears the I/O windows in certain PCI-PCI bridges and FreeBSD does not cope well with this case. -- John Baldwin